I cloned a chest right beside another chest without a blocks space.
What happened was the first chest went invisible, but was still there. Right clicking any of the chests (not the invisible one) will display the inventory from all of the chests.
How I did this:
1. Created a large chest.
2. Used the new clone command to clone the chest right beside itself using relative coordinates. (clone ~ ~ ~-1 ~-1 ~ ~-1 ~-3 ~ ~-1)
3. Ran the command.
This can also be done with setblock, and most likely fill aswell.
Note: Breaking the second chest will return the first to normal.
Another Note: One thing I noticed since I originally posted this is that right clicking the invisible chest shows a double chest inventory like normal.
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Actually, I can see this possibly causing problems anyway. There are currently various issues with /fill and /clone due to the order which blocks are set. Cloning structures with order-specific blocks are very likely to break. This includes things like torches being set before the blocks they are attached to and falling off. Basically, set order needs to be rearranged for certain blocks.
It still happens in 1.8.1-pre3
Easy way to reproduce it:
/fill ~ ~ ~ ~1 ~ ~1 minecraft:chest
I would expect that won't fix be fixed as @unknown said. Of course that's up Mojang.
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Probably invalid or wontfix. Chests aren't able to be placed 3 in a row, due to how double-chest detection works. If you want this functionality, do a chest (or double chest) next to a (double)trapped chest. This allows for them to be placed next to each other because trapped chests don't connect to regular chests.